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Edward Ormondroyd

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Edward Ormondroyd grew up in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, and Ann Arbor, Michigan. During WWII he served onboard a destroyer escort, participating in the invasions of Okinawa and Iwo Jima.

After the war he attended the University of California at Berkeley, where he received a bachelor's degree in English. Later he went back for a master's degree in library science.

He lived in Berkely for 25 years, working at various jobs while he wrote children's books. He and his wife Joan moved to upstate New York in 1970. They live in the country near Ithaca, in a house designed and partly built by Edward. Their seven children are all grown and independent. They have two grandsons and a granddaughter. Edward's interests include studying piano, gardening, boo...more

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Books by Edward Ormondroyd

Average rating: 4.18 · 414 ratings · 81 reviews · 10 distinct works

	David and the Phoenix by Edward Ormondroyd, Joan Rayso (Illustrator) 4.21 avg rating — 198 ratings — published 1957 — 20 editions	My rating:
	Time at the Top 4.12 avg rating — 148 ratings — published 1963 — 6 editions	My rating:
	All In Good Time 4.37 avg rating — 27 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Theodore: The Adventures of a Smudgy Bear by Edward Ormondroyd, Juli Kangas (Illustrator) 4.11 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1966 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Castaways on Long Ago 3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings — 6 editions	My rating:
	Broderick 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1969 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Time at the Top and All in Good Time: Two Novels by Edward Ormondroyd, Charles Geer, Jolly Roger Bradfield 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Imagination Greene by Edward Ormondroyd, John Lewis 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	My rating:
	Theodore's Rival by Edward Ormondroyd, Ormondr 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1971 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Johnny Castleseed by Edward Ormondroyd, Diana Thewlis (Illustrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1988 — 2 editions	My rating: